Conflicting claims over Gaza deaths
29/4/08
Differing accounts have emerged of what caused four Palestinian children and their mother to die during an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip. While Palestinian witnesses blamed Monday’s deaths on an Israeli missile, the Israelis say the blast was caused when explosives carried by Palestinian fighters detonated during the raid. “Due to the sensitivity of the matter and the complexity of the battle … additional inquiries are to be carried out,” into the incident in the town of Beit Hanoun, the Israeli army said in a statement on Tuesday.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D693C984-2AF8-4FF7-8310-A0E7E55558B3.htm
Israel’s Crime Against Humanity; Hisham Abu Taha; 9/4/08; http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=109402&d=29&m=4&y=2008
UNIFIL denies Israeli charges it ignores Hezbollah activity
29/4/08
The UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon is denying Israeli charges that it has been ignoring Hezbollah guerrilla activity in the area of the Israeli border. Senior sources in Jerusalem on Sunday accused UNIFIL of intentionally concealing information about Hezbollah activities south of the Litani River in Lebanon to avoid conflict with the group. In the last six months there have been at least four cases in which UNIFIL soldiers identified armed Hezbollah operatives, but did nothing and did not submit full reports on the incidents to the UN Security Council. In one incident, Israeli officials charge that the UNIFIL force stopped a truck filled with weapons but did not filed a full report.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/979078.html
Settlers to Move Into Jerusalem Buildings
Mohammed Mar’I; 29/4/08
Extreme right-wing Jewish settlers will take up residence in a group of buildings in East Jerusalem’s predominantly Arab neighborhood Ras Al-Amud in the next few days based on an agreement signed with former Israeli police commissioner Moshe Karadi, a report said yesterday. The buildings had hitherto served as the headquarters of the Samaria and Judea district (West Bank) Police. The daily Haaretz said that the buildings are slated to become the nucleus of a new Jewish neighborhood in the so-called Holy Basin area, the fate of which is supposed to be decided in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Police officials said that work began before the Jewish Passover holiday on vacating the place, and that in the coming days they will finish moving the offices to a new facility built in controversial Area E1, which connects Jerusalem with Ma’aleh Adumim settlement.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=109414&d=29&m=4&y=2008